1 00:02:13,310 --> 00:02:17,856 Once, a man came to Hari Seldon and asked to be told his fate. 2 00:02:25,781 --> 00:02:26,990 He wanted to know 3 00:02:27,074 --> 00:02:30,368 whether the predictive models could chart the significance of his life. 4 00:02:35,165 --> 00:02:39,169 But Hari told him only the movements of masses could be predicted. 5 00:02:42,214 --> 00:02:47,094 The fate of one individual will always remain a mystery. 6 00:03:31,012 --> 00:03:33,348 The clockwork of civilization... 7 00:03:36,184 --> 00:03:38,687 the rise and fall of cultures... 8 00:03:41,189 --> 00:03:43,358 causes and worlds... 9 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:50,073 These were answers Hari Seldon had long since unriddled. 10 00:03:52,409 --> 00:03:55,829 Belief is a powerful weapon. 11 00:03:57,581 --> 00:04:01,918 That's why the Empire feared Hari Seldon's predictions so much. 12 00:04:03,587 --> 00:04:09,593 Empires govern worldly concerns, but what comes after? Our souls? 13 00:04:10,343 --> 00:04:12,554 These realms are the purview of faith. 14 00:04:12,637 --> 00:04:17,809 And faith is a sword forged in the fires of the infinite. 15 00:05:03,021 --> 00:05:05,857 Empire? Do you seek different amusement? 16 00:05:05,941 --> 00:05:10,445 You'll do. For the routine pleasures in the routine manner. 17 00:05:10,529 --> 00:05:13,115 Which pleasures do you prefer, Empire? 18 00:05:14,074 --> 00:05:18,286 Do you offer the pleasure of nothing? Is that on the menu? 19 00:05:19,037 --> 00:05:22,040 Is it true? No one's allowed to touch you? 20 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,336 Bold, aren't you? 21 00:05:26,420 --> 00:05:31,174 I have only 24 hours of service to you. I want to make the most of it. 22 00:05:33,885 --> 00:05:35,303 Then try to touch me. 23 00:05:39,099 --> 00:05:40,809 I said try. 24 00:06:08,795 --> 00:06:10,589 The aura repels kinetic energy. 25 00:06:12,674 --> 00:06:16,970 I want you to try it again, with a softer touch. 26 00:06:18,764 --> 00:06:19,765 Slower. 27 00:06:24,311 --> 00:06:25,312 Slower. 28 00:06:42,537 --> 00:06:44,331 So, how... 29 00:06:44,414 --> 00:06:45,457 ...does the rest work? 30 00:07:00,931 --> 00:07:02,349 What? 31 00:07:02,432 --> 00:07:04,059 You are required, Empire. 32 00:07:05,477 --> 00:07:08,980 I understand Empire has a physiological need for intimacy. 33 00:07:09,064 --> 00:07:11,691 But the current matter supersedes this need. 34 00:07:25,789 --> 00:07:27,165 Ambassador Thanwall. 35 00:07:28,041 --> 00:07:31,086 Most esteemed Empire, glory to the light... 36 00:07:31,169 --> 00:07:32,712 Out with it, Ambassador. 37 00:07:34,131 --> 00:07:37,134 Proxima Opal has passed, Empire. 38 00:07:37,217 --> 00:07:38,343 Our condolences. 39 00:07:38,427 --> 00:07:40,470 Condolences. Heartfelt. 40 00:07:40,554 --> 00:07:42,431 Thank you, Empire. 41 00:07:42,514 --> 00:07:46,017 Proxima Opal will be missed and mourned by her flock. 42 00:07:46,101 --> 00:07:50,313 And now the conclave will elevate her successor, Zephyr Gilat. 43 00:07:50,397 --> 00:07:52,524 A capable candidate. We like her. 44 00:07:53,024 --> 00:07:55,527 Carry our condolences forward, Ambassador. 45 00:07:55,610 --> 00:07:59,614 And inform Gilat she's always welcome on Trantor. 46 00:07:59,698 --> 00:08:03,577 On the topic of a successor, Empire, 47 00:08:03,660 --> 00:08:06,830 there is some debate. 48 00:08:07,539 --> 00:08:10,834 Another candidate has been gaining support. 49 00:08:12,294 --> 00:08:13,295 Zephyr Halima. 50 00:08:14,337 --> 00:08:18,508 Halima Ifa does not adhere to accepted doctrine, 51 00:08:18,592 --> 00:08:21,219 as have our previous proximas. 52 00:08:21,303 --> 00:08:25,057 She is advocating for a return to the Primary Octavo. 53 00:08:26,475 --> 00:08:27,642 Is she suicidal? 54 00:08:28,685 --> 00:08:30,896 Who is this woman to question our primacy? 55 00:08:30,979 --> 00:08:32,856 A-A-Apologies, Empire. I-I... 56 00:08:32,939 --> 00:08:35,067 - Did you know about this? - Only moments ago. 57 00:08:35,859 --> 00:08:37,444 When is Opal's funeral? 58 00:08:37,527 --> 00:08:39,237 Two days hence, Empire. 59 00:08:52,375 --> 00:08:55,962 Say nothing of this conversation. We will contact you shortly. 60 00:09:04,429 --> 00:09:06,932 I helped install the previous Proxima. 61 00:09:07,015 --> 00:09:09,518 I'll leave for the conclave as soon as possible. 62 00:09:09,601 --> 00:09:12,437 Is that really necessary? Can't you just holo-cast yourself in? 63 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:13,522 Not this time. 64 00:09:13,605 --> 00:09:19,403 Luminism claims three trillion followers. This schism requires a personal touch. 65 00:09:27,619 --> 00:09:29,663 What's the Primary Octavo? 66 00:09:30,497 --> 00:09:33,834 A heretical scripture. Pre-imperial. 67 00:09:35,001 --> 00:09:38,130 It directly links the soul to individuated sentience. 68 00:09:38,714 --> 00:09:42,134 - What does that mean... - Individuated sentience. 69 00:09:42,217 --> 00:09:43,927 Think, Brother Dawn. 70 00:09:44,010 --> 00:09:46,638 If a soul cleaves only to an individual being, 71 00:09:46,722 --> 00:09:50,016 that calls into question that which cannot be individuated. 72 00:09:51,268 --> 00:09:57,482 All Cleons are perfect genetic copies of the first. 73 00:09:57,566 --> 00:09:58,567 And therefore... 74 00:09:59,401 --> 00:10:01,069 We don't have souls. 75 00:10:02,028 --> 00:10:05,157 So, this Halima woman is saying we're, what? 76 00:10:06,658 --> 00:10:07,784 Not human? 77 00:10:07,868 --> 00:10:09,453 Indirectly. But... 78 00:10:09,536 --> 00:10:11,538 And if the galaxy comes to believe 79 00:10:11,621 --> 00:10:14,833 their leaders are less than, rather than more than themselves, 80 00:10:14,916 --> 00:10:16,626 they may cease to follow. 81 00:10:21,757 --> 00:10:23,216 We are a glass vessel... 82 00:10:24,885 --> 00:10:27,012 spun with a fine hand. 83 00:10:29,681 --> 00:10:34,061 If the pressures inside start to swirl and we are not uniform... 84 00:10:37,272 --> 00:10:38,482 we may burst. 85 00:10:44,613 --> 00:10:46,698 - Who are you? - Salvor Hardin. 86 00:10:48,116 --> 00:10:49,284 Warden of Terminus. 87 00:10:54,331 --> 00:10:56,625 Anacreons aren't allowed on imperial soil. 88 00:11:00,712 --> 00:11:01,797 What are you doing here? 89 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,256 Scrapping. 90 00:11:03,340 --> 00:11:04,800 That's a lot of armor for scrappers. 91 00:11:04,883 --> 00:11:06,885 We're looking for the ship's navigation module. 92 00:11:06,968 --> 00:11:09,846 Any critical components were stripped from this hulk decades ago. 93 00:11:09,930 --> 00:11:12,682 But, again, a real scrapper would know that. 94 00:11:12,766 --> 00:11:16,395 You should leave. Before the Empire catches wind of this. 95 00:11:16,478 --> 00:11:18,397 My people do not fear the Empire. 96 00:11:25,028 --> 00:11:26,089 Look, I caught you by surprise 97 00:11:26,113 --> 00:11:27,489 and now you're improvising. 98 00:11:29,074 --> 00:11:32,244 But if you were gonna kill me, you would have already. 99 00:11:32,327 --> 00:11:33,620 So what's the play? 100 00:11:39,668 --> 00:11:42,170 That tower. Take us there. 101 00:11:42,254 --> 00:11:43,296 Why? 102 00:11:46,133 --> 00:11:48,260 Let me be clear, Warden. 103 00:11:48,343 --> 00:11:51,096 We know how to use every resource we come across. 104 00:11:52,055 --> 00:11:54,349 The children we observed earlier, 105 00:11:54,433 --> 00:11:57,018 we've seen how they sneak away just before dawn, 106 00:11:57,102 --> 00:11:59,604 straying far away from the rest of your flock. 107 00:11:59,688 --> 00:12:04,109 If you won't lead us to the tower, we'll simply utilize one of them. 108 00:12:04,192 --> 00:12:06,403 It's not that simple. We have a fence. 109 00:12:06,486 --> 00:12:07,779 We're aware of your fence. 110 00:12:07,863 --> 00:12:09,865 We saw you perform maintenance on it earlier. 111 00:12:09,948 --> 00:12:13,535 Which makes you the perfect person to take us through it. 112 00:12:14,244 --> 00:12:15,370 To the tower then! 113 00:12:30,218 --> 00:12:32,220 The fence uses DNA recognition. 114 00:12:34,139 --> 00:12:36,308 It'll radiate anyone who isn't in the database. 115 00:12:42,105 --> 00:12:43,585 I might be able to get one of you in. 116 00:12:43,648 --> 00:12:44,941 If we walk through together, 117 00:12:45,025 --> 00:12:47,360 the fence should write off the second person as an error. 118 00:12:47,444 --> 00:12:48,612 Then take us all through it. 119 00:12:48,695 --> 00:12:51,114 This only works once. Maybe. 120 00:12:54,659 --> 00:12:57,621 The only thing I've ever dragged through this fence was already dead. 121 00:13:06,213 --> 00:13:10,050 I can feel you tensing up. Don't. 122 00:13:10,133 --> 00:13:14,554 If she isn't back within a watch, we'll raze your city to the ground. 123 00:13:30,987 --> 00:13:32,531 Go. Get the others. 124 00:13:32,614 --> 00:13:34,408 Establish a perimeter and stay out of sight. 125 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:46,586 Wanna drive and I'll hold the gun? 126 00:13:57,639 --> 00:13:58,932 Tell me your name, at least. 127 00:13:59,891 --> 00:14:01,184 Are we best friends now? 128 00:14:01,685 --> 00:14:03,228 You've risked a lot coming here. 129 00:14:03,311 --> 00:14:05,647 We've risked everything, Warden. 130 00:14:12,738 --> 00:14:16,658 - No. There was a boy in our path! - Don't get cute. I have eyes. 131 00:14:26,835 --> 00:14:27,836 The tower's that way. 132 00:14:27,919 --> 00:14:30,005 I'm taking a shortcut. Fewer watchmen this way. 133 00:14:34,718 --> 00:14:36,136 What is that? 134 00:14:41,099 --> 00:14:42,100 Stop. 135 00:14:47,189 --> 00:14:48,398 Stop. 136 00:14:54,571 --> 00:14:58,033 The stories about Salvor Hardin? They usually begin here. 137 00:14:58,116 --> 00:15:01,411 The warden and the ghost, 138 00:15:01,495 --> 00:15:03,622 inexplicably bound together. 139 00:15:03,705 --> 00:15:04,706 Thanks. 140 00:15:13,673 --> 00:15:15,425 How did they slip past our radar? 141 00:15:15,509 --> 00:15:18,428 Flew in the nap of the earth. Maybe. 142 00:15:18,512 --> 00:15:19,721 Any sign of their ships? 143 00:15:19,805 --> 00:15:23,016 They claimed to be scrappers. Said they were after a navigation module. 144 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:25,352 - Obviously bullshit. - We need to contact the Empire. 145 00:15:25,435 --> 00:15:26,996 We can't do anything without authorization. 146 00:15:27,020 --> 00:15:29,100 Come on, Mom. We're an imperial outpost in name only. 147 00:15:29,940 --> 00:15:32,293 When was the last time they even contacted us? A decade ago? 148 00:15:32,317 --> 00:15:34,444 They won't defend us. We need to do it ourselves. 149 00:15:34,528 --> 00:15:36,988 Easy. Violence is the last refuge... 150 00:15:37,072 --> 00:15:39,658 Of the incompetent, I know. That's an old man's doctrine. 151 00:15:39,741 --> 00:15:41,761 It's an observation I made when I was younger than you. 152 00:15:41,785 --> 00:15:45,038 Would Hari's plan have assumed we'd wait for help or act on our own? 153 00:15:45,122 --> 00:15:48,208 Hari is not here, Mom. We need to help ourselves. 154 00:15:52,379 --> 00:15:54,214 Welcome back, best friend. 155 00:15:55,132 --> 00:15:58,427 You left the conversation just as we were really getting to know each other. 156 00:15:58,510 --> 00:15:59,636 Headache? 157 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:01,596 Teeth feel like they're falling out? 158 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,390 What was that cursed thing? 159 00:16:03,473 --> 00:16:05,475 It was here when we colonized Terminus. 160 00:16:05,559 --> 00:16:09,146 Didn't show up on any of our scans. I guess it didn't show up on yours either. 161 00:16:09,229 --> 00:16:11,189 Why did it not affect you? 162 00:16:11,273 --> 00:16:14,860 Let's just say I'm the last person on Terminus you wanted to come across. 163 00:16:15,902 --> 00:16:16,902 So... 164 00:16:18,113 --> 00:16:19,656 what now, Warden? 165 00:16:21,825 --> 00:16:23,535 She had a small army with her. 166 00:16:23,618 --> 00:16:25,829 An... And their tracks, some of them were deep. 167 00:16:25,912 --> 00:16:29,374 Shorter stride lengths. As if they were carrying heavy equipment. 168 00:16:29,916 --> 00:16:31,835 Like they're planning on digging in, Dad. 169 00:16:32,335 --> 00:16:34,588 - Well, what do you wanna do? - I don't know. 170 00:16:35,172 --> 00:16:37,090 I've been following my instincts, and... 171 00:16:37,174 --> 00:16:38,854 I don't know, maybe it was just dumb luck. 172 00:16:38,884 --> 00:16:41,261 Your instincts didn't just lead you to the ships. 173 00:16:41,344 --> 00:16:43,513 They led you to her. And you stopped her. 174 00:16:44,973 --> 00:16:46,308 If you were better at math, 175 00:16:46,391 --> 00:16:49,895 you'd know that repeated luck was more than just luck, Salvor. 176 00:16:50,812 --> 00:16:52,731 Whether your mother wants to admit it or not, 177 00:16:52,814 --> 00:16:56,818 we have been following your lead from the moment you pulled yourself upright. 178 00:16:57,736 --> 00:17:01,406 It's no accident the people made you warden. 179 00:17:02,949 --> 00:17:04,117 So lead us. 180 00:17:16,296 --> 00:17:19,591 I have never had the pleasure, Empire. How may I be of service? 181 00:17:19,674 --> 00:17:20,926 Captain Obrecht, is it? 182 00:17:21,009 --> 00:17:24,429 Shadowmaster, Empire. Shadowmaster Obrecht. 183 00:17:24,513 --> 00:17:25,764 A fine likeness. 184 00:17:28,308 --> 00:17:31,520 What's the protocol for dealing with a problem palace attendant? 185 00:17:31,603 --> 00:17:33,730 What level of attendant, if I may ask? 186 00:17:34,481 --> 00:17:37,818 - Someone who works in the garden. - May I ask the nature of the problem? 187 00:17:37,901 --> 00:17:40,362 You may not. I just want her name. 188 00:17:40,987 --> 00:17:44,824 I can ascertain that, Empire. Along with anything else you may require. 189 00:17:44,908 --> 00:17:46,118 That's all for now. 190 00:17:55,419 --> 00:17:58,421 I saw at least a dozen Anacreons outside the fence. 191 00:17:58,505 --> 00:18:00,424 Travik, take the southern loop. 192 00:18:00,507 --> 00:18:02,175 Kalin, cover the west. 193 00:18:02,258 --> 00:18:06,012 Yate, I want you on the east so you can spot anyone coming over that ridge. 194 00:18:06,096 --> 00:18:09,850 And if we see any of these guys, what are we supposed to do? 195 00:18:09,933 --> 00:18:10,934 Nothing. 196 00:18:11,017 --> 00:18:14,080 Don't shoot at them, don't speak to them. Just watch 'em and keep me informed. 197 00:18:14,104 --> 00:18:16,732 - What's this about Anacreons on Terminus? - Calls herself Phara. 198 00:18:16,815 --> 00:18:19,276 Beyond that, nothing about her story adds up. 199 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:21,695 If anyone can tell whether somebody's lying, it's you. 200 00:18:21,778 --> 00:18:24,072 That's just the thing. I can't tell if she's lying 201 00:18:24,156 --> 00:18:25,907 or if she's just not telling the truth. 202 00:18:25,991 --> 00:18:27,159 Is there a difference? 203 00:18:27,701 --> 00:18:29,870 I've got a plan. But I'm gonna need your help. 204 00:18:35,959 --> 00:18:38,044 What's this? Torture? 205 00:18:38,128 --> 00:18:40,505 He's my manservant. 206 00:18:40,589 --> 00:18:43,967 Runs and fetches. Reseals my boots when they need it. 207 00:18:44,051 --> 00:18:49,389 I'm thinking a watch has passed, as far as my weald-men are concerned. 208 00:18:49,473 --> 00:18:50,849 Why are you really here, Phara? 209 00:18:52,350 --> 00:18:54,352 Salvor has a talent for reading people. 210 00:18:55,353 --> 00:18:57,981 It's uncanny, really. I was just telling her mother about it. 211 00:18:58,482 --> 00:18:59,691 She doesn't believe you. 212 00:18:59,775 --> 00:19:02,444 Well, you told her you're my boss. Now my praise rings hollow. 213 00:19:02,527 --> 00:19:04,130 What's your interest in the Foundation Tower? 214 00:19:04,154 --> 00:19:08,158 The module. I already told you. You keep asking me the same questions. 215 00:19:08,241 --> 00:19:11,119 I'm giving you a chance to give better answers. 216 00:19:11,203 --> 00:19:12,537 Crowns. 217 00:19:15,582 --> 00:19:18,168 I know you're after something else. 218 00:19:18,251 --> 00:19:22,506 We don't have any Anacreon artifacts, no heavy weapons, so what... 219 00:19:22,589 --> 00:19:23,840 This is going in circles. 220 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:26,301 Explain it to her. 221 00:19:26,802 --> 00:19:28,470 Just give her what she wants. 222 00:19:28,553 --> 00:19:30,639 Your accent's not terrible. 223 00:19:31,056 --> 00:19:33,767 You were taught by someone in the port city, obviously. 224 00:19:34,601 --> 00:19:35,977 Those lazy vowels. 225 00:19:36,061 --> 00:19:37,479 I'm a trader. 226 00:19:37,979 --> 00:19:40,399 I do business with your people now and then. 227 00:19:40,774 --> 00:19:43,568 Thought I smelled a whiff of Thespin on you. 228 00:19:43,902 --> 00:19:46,613 I want the navigation module. That's it. 229 00:19:46,696 --> 00:19:47,864 Another lie. 230 00:19:48,407 --> 00:19:49,741 You speak Anacreon as well? 231 00:19:49,825 --> 00:19:50,909 Not a word. 232 00:19:50,992 --> 00:19:52,577 - Yet you know I'm lying? - Cats. 233 00:19:55,038 --> 00:19:56,123 That was a 50-50 chance. 234 00:19:56,206 --> 00:19:57,582 Cats again. Who are you really? 235 00:20:01,211 --> 00:20:03,213 Twenty-five percent chance there. 236 00:20:03,296 --> 00:20:04,589 Now it's back to crowns. 237 00:20:05,966 --> 00:20:08,677 Twelve and a half percent. And another crown. Why are you here? 238 00:20:09,636 --> 00:20:10,804 Another crown again. 239 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:28,363 I'd give you the percentage, but repeated luck is never luck. 240 00:20:33,618 --> 00:20:34,619 Who are you? 241 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,581 We're scrappers. The module. 242 00:20:37,664 --> 00:20:40,709 You're not scrappers. And the navigation module's a distraction... 243 00:20:40,792 --> 00:20:42,419 Enough of these child games. 244 00:20:42,502 --> 00:20:45,172 Take this Thespin thug off his leash and let him get on with it! 245 00:20:45,255 --> 00:20:46,256 Your scars... 246 00:20:47,549 --> 00:20:48,550 keloids. 247 00:20:53,472 --> 00:20:54,931 Your left eye... 248 00:20:56,516 --> 00:20:57,517 nano-glass. 249 00:20:57,601 --> 00:21:00,395 You lose it when the Empire bombed Anacreon? 250 00:21:00,479 --> 00:21:03,648 I imagine you must have been, what, five, six at the time? 251 00:21:03,732 --> 00:21:08,403 Neutron bombs have a low explosive yield but a high amount of ionizing radiation. 252 00:21:08,487 --> 00:21:12,532 Now, I know about 50% of the population died off within a week, 253 00:21:12,616 --> 00:21:15,660 another 20 or 30 within the remaining year. 254 00:21:16,244 --> 00:21:18,997 Odds are you came out the other end an orphan, right? 255 00:21:20,582 --> 00:21:24,044 Probably lost a mom and dad. 256 00:21:24,878 --> 00:21:27,005 Boiled alive. 257 00:21:28,715 --> 00:21:30,801 Or maybe s-slower. 258 00:21:31,593 --> 00:21:32,594 Cancer. 259 00:21:35,055 --> 00:21:39,851 Thyroid for your mother. Her voice, it changed before she died. 260 00:21:39,935 --> 00:21:42,562 Who else did you lose? A sister? 261 00:21:47,692 --> 00:21:48,777 A brother. 262 00:21:52,030 --> 00:21:53,698 A little brother. 263 00:22:11,091 --> 00:22:13,427 There's a deadness inside her. It's like a... 264 00:22:13,510 --> 00:22:16,805 It's like a well with no bottom, just sucking everything in. 265 00:22:18,473 --> 00:22:19,683 She wants to die. 266 00:22:21,268 --> 00:22:24,980 She wants everyone to die. I felt it. 267 00:22:30,694 --> 00:22:33,005 What she said when she broke, did you understand any of it? 268 00:22:33,029 --> 00:22:35,657 Some, yeah. It's archaic Anacreon, not the common vernacular. 269 00:22:35,741 --> 00:22:39,119 Well, she slipped up. Because I understood something too. 270 00:22:39,911 --> 00:22:43,457 A name I remember from the holos. Larken Keaen. 271 00:22:47,294 --> 00:22:48,920 During the Anthor Belt dispute, 272 00:22:49,004 --> 00:22:51,256 Anacreon and Thespis brought gifts to the Emperor. 273 00:22:51,339 --> 00:22:52,841 My people's was the Book of Ablut... 274 00:22:52,924 --> 00:22:55,218 And Anacreon's was a bow carved for its greatest hunter. 275 00:22:55,844 --> 00:22:57,512 - Larken Keaen. - Meaning? 276 00:22:57,596 --> 00:22:59,347 Phara's not just some junker. 277 00:23:00,182 --> 00:23:02,059 She's the Grand Huntress of Anacreon. 278 00:23:12,235 --> 00:23:15,489 All this unrest, who's responsible for it? 279 00:23:16,198 --> 00:23:18,825 Sinkers. A nom de guerre. 280 00:23:19,326 --> 00:23:24,873 After the heat sink meltdown on level 77. It was caused when the Star Bridge fell. 281 00:23:24,956 --> 00:23:28,835 And 35 years later we're still grappling with the aftereffects. 282 00:23:31,296 --> 00:23:36,468 The businesses of Empire is a cascade of competing priorities. 283 00:23:37,094 --> 00:23:40,305 Brother Day will need your support while I tend to the conclave. 284 00:23:41,264 --> 00:23:42,474 It's overwhelming. 285 00:23:42,557 --> 00:23:43,767 For one man. 286 00:23:44,851 --> 00:23:47,396 Fortunately, there are three of us. 287 00:23:47,479 --> 00:23:51,149 Bad tidings also come in threes. Have you heard the news, Brother? 288 00:23:51,900 --> 00:23:55,821 A communications buoy in the Arcturus Sector has come off-line. 289 00:23:55,904 --> 00:23:58,865 They must go off-line all the time, right? 290 00:23:58,949 --> 00:24:01,243 We probably have thousands of them across the galaxy. 291 00:24:01,326 --> 00:24:02,577 Tens of thousands. 292 00:24:02,661 --> 00:24:05,914 But only one that handles communications in the Outer Reach. 293 00:24:07,165 --> 00:24:09,501 I see that you fail to grasp the significance. 294 00:24:10,210 --> 00:24:11,628 It's Terminus. 295 00:24:13,130 --> 00:24:16,675 It's where Brother Dusk exiled Hari Seldon's followers. 296 00:24:20,387 --> 00:24:25,142 The Reach. The conclave. Insurgency... 297 00:24:26,935 --> 00:24:29,104 Do you see a pattern forming here? 298 00:24:30,105 --> 00:24:31,106 Show them. 299 00:24:32,983 --> 00:24:37,237 Sensing vulnerability, soon other players will begin to apply downward pressure. 300 00:24:37,904 --> 00:24:42,576 An exhortation from one of the galaxy's major religions is a given. 301 00:24:42,659 --> 00:24:45,495 Or perhaps a homegrown insurrection here on Trantor. 302 00:24:46,163 --> 00:24:51,752 If the fall can be accelerated, can it not also be slowed? 303 00:24:51,835 --> 00:24:52,961 Now look at you, Brother. 304 00:24:53,044 --> 00:24:56,465 So smugly self-assured atop the middle throne. 305 00:24:56,548 --> 00:24:58,884 I used to practice that smile in the mirror. 306 00:24:58,967 --> 00:25:01,053 Enough. I know how the scene ends. 307 00:25:01,136 --> 00:25:02,929 But have you embraced its lessons? 308 00:25:03,013 --> 00:25:06,016 Luminism. The Sinker insurrection happening now. 309 00:25:06,099 --> 00:25:08,643 Seldon all but drew you a to-do list. 310 00:25:09,895 --> 00:25:10,896 And you ignored him. 311 00:25:10,979 --> 00:25:12,606 Because he was a charlatan. 312 00:25:12,689 --> 00:25:14,441 You offer nothing new. 313 00:25:14,983 --> 00:25:17,903 Just a younger grape... 314 00:25:18,487 --> 00:25:19,613 from the same vine, 315 00:25:20,113 --> 00:25:22,949 destined for the same old bottle. 316 00:25:23,033 --> 00:25:25,118 You can't save yourselves... 317 00:25:25,202 --> 00:25:27,162 but you can save your legacy. 318 00:25:28,830 --> 00:25:30,874 Hari Seldon is long dead. 319 00:25:32,084 --> 00:25:34,336 Murdered by his protégé, no less. 320 00:25:34,419 --> 00:25:37,047 The man was murdered. But what about the movement, Brother? 321 00:25:39,299 --> 00:25:41,510 Martyrs tend to have a long half-life. 322 00:25:50,185 --> 00:25:54,106 Thanks to you, we are now staring down the barrel of a genuine diplomatic crisis. 323 00:25:54,189 --> 00:25:56,149 What was I supposed to do, Lewis? 324 00:25:56,233 --> 00:25:58,073 Let Phara kill me and then move on to the kids? 325 00:25:58,110 --> 00:25:59,796 You shouldn't have questioned her without me. 326 00:25:59,820 --> 00:26:01,488 Be glad I did. We know who she is now. 327 00:26:01,571 --> 00:26:03,573 We have leverage. We can bargain with her people. 328 00:26:03,657 --> 00:26:05,497 If this choice inflames the city into violence, 329 00:26:05,534 --> 00:26:07,411 you have achieved elaborate suicide for us all. 330 00:26:07,494 --> 00:26:09,871 Didn't Hari say the Foundation survives the first crisis? 331 00:26:09,955 --> 00:26:13,750 Yes, he did. But, as I've told you before, you are an outlier. 332 00:26:13,834 --> 00:26:14,960 - Meaning? - Salvor. 333 00:26:15,043 --> 00:26:16,628 Meaning that you weren't accounted for. 334 00:26:16,711 --> 00:26:18,171 You have a connection with the Vault 335 00:26:18,255 --> 00:26:20,507 which couldn't have possibly have been predicted. 336 00:26:20,590 --> 00:26:22,050 You are not baked into the model. 337 00:26:22,134 --> 00:26:23,653 You're saying I'm not part of God's plan. 338 00:26:23,677 --> 00:26:25,929 I am saying psychohistory can't account for individuals. 339 00:26:26,012 --> 00:26:27,573 So you're saying I've destroyed God's plan? 340 00:26:27,597 --> 00:26:29,933 - It's time to take a step back, Salvor. - Step back? 341 00:26:30,016 --> 00:26:31,977 I thought the whole damn point of the Foundation 342 00:26:32,060 --> 00:26:34,438 was preparing for the unthinkable. 343 00:26:34,521 --> 00:26:36,606 When I asked for more defensive weapons, 344 00:26:36,690 --> 00:26:39,234 you said the likelihood of an attack seemed remote. 345 00:26:39,317 --> 00:26:41,361 When I wanted to run more drills, nothing. 346 00:26:41,945 --> 00:26:43,739 So here we are now, not prepared. 347 00:26:43,822 --> 00:26:48,034 I might be an outlier, but I'm not the one screwing up the Plan, Lewis. 348 00:26:55,250 --> 00:26:57,294 Lewis Pirenne, director. 349 00:26:57,377 --> 00:27:01,298 Now, why would the Anacreon Council send its highest-ranking military officer 350 00:27:01,381 --> 00:27:03,175 to an imperial outpost? 351 00:27:03,258 --> 00:27:05,844 Is that what you're pretending your little doomsday cult is? 352 00:27:05,927 --> 00:27:07,763 Because I don't see the Empire anywhere. 353 00:27:07,846 --> 00:27:11,433 All I see are academics, laborers and very few guns. 354 00:27:11,516 --> 00:27:12,809 You took down the comms buoy. 355 00:27:12,893 --> 00:27:16,438 Of course. We wanted to operate in private, away from prying eyes. 356 00:27:16,521 --> 00:27:19,608 You have to know the Empire will send someone to investigate eventually. 357 00:27:20,442 --> 00:27:21,735 Or is that the point? 358 00:27:21,818 --> 00:27:23,653 Your women are so much sharper than your men. 359 00:27:24,863 --> 00:27:28,575 The barbarian kingdoms are exiled. You have no business here. 360 00:27:30,285 --> 00:27:31,536 "Barbarians." 361 00:27:32,537 --> 00:27:34,831 Just a convenient slur for anyone not like you. 362 00:27:35,415 --> 00:27:39,002 Trantor left us all here to die. Your people and mine. 363 00:27:39,086 --> 00:27:40,879 We're just dying at different speeds. 364 00:27:40,962 --> 00:27:42,297 The Foundation isn't dying. 365 00:27:42,381 --> 00:27:45,967 We are fulfilling the mission Hari Seldon entrusted us with. 366 00:27:46,051 --> 00:27:49,721 Seldon also predicted that the fall would begin at the edge of the galaxy. 367 00:27:50,847 --> 00:27:52,265 - Here. - The same science 368 00:27:52,349 --> 00:27:54,410 that saved the Imperial Palace when the Star Bridge fell 369 00:27:54,434 --> 00:27:55,644 protects Terminus City. 370 00:27:55,727 --> 00:27:57,145 You mean your energy barrier? 371 00:27:58,313 --> 00:28:02,275 A weapon's only as good as the man who's wielding it. 372 00:28:17,499 --> 00:28:18,750 Kalin, what's your situation? 373 00:28:18,834 --> 00:28:20,752 It's getting pretty crowded over here. 374 00:28:20,836 --> 00:28:23,088 - I think I need backup. - Not happening. 375 00:28:23,171 --> 00:28:26,466 Salvor saw a dozen. You're telling me we've got Anacreons all over? 376 00:28:26,550 --> 00:28:29,386 I'm telling you I'm seeing enough guns to take out the whole town. 377 00:28:30,804 --> 00:28:31,888 Empire. 378 00:28:36,309 --> 00:28:37,519 The matter we discussed? 379 00:28:38,770 --> 00:28:42,357 Her name is Azura Odili. A palace botanist since the age of 13. 380 00:28:42,941 --> 00:28:46,403 Her father, deceased, was also an agroecologist in the gardens. 381 00:28:46,945 --> 00:28:50,157 Her mother founded a school for the ikebana, now closed. 382 00:28:51,616 --> 00:28:53,076 You said there was a problem? 383 00:28:54,745 --> 00:28:58,039 How are problems generally solved in this situation? 384 00:28:58,790 --> 00:29:03,295 Any manner that achieves its goal. My job is to eliminate problems, Empire. 385 00:29:15,932 --> 00:29:17,684 Azura Odili. 386 00:29:20,562 --> 00:29:22,564 Oh-dee-lee? Oh-dih-lee? 387 00:29:22,647 --> 00:29:23,732 Dee, Empire. 388 00:29:23,815 --> 00:29:25,734 You were outside my chambers earlier. 389 00:29:27,319 --> 00:29:29,946 - Want to know what you think you saw. - I saw nothing, Empire. 390 00:29:30,030 --> 00:29:31,782 No. I believe you saw something. 391 00:29:31,865 --> 00:29:34,034 I only see what Empire wants me to see. 392 00:29:34,117 --> 00:29:36,369 I could have you removed from your station, 393 00:29:37,454 --> 00:29:39,623 sent to scrub the heat sinks on level 80. 394 00:29:39,706 --> 00:29:42,959 I could do worse to you. Much worse. 395 00:29:43,043 --> 00:29:44,252 You know all this. 396 00:29:44,336 --> 00:29:46,838 Empire, Brother Dusk has asked me to summon you. 397 00:29:46,922 --> 00:29:48,256 Tell him I'm coming. 398 00:29:50,217 --> 00:29:51,718 Remove this entire bed. 399 00:29:52,344 --> 00:29:55,097 From my chambers the smell of the blossoms is overbearing. 400 00:29:55,180 --> 00:29:58,350 - Empire, you needn't bother with this... - It's settled. You can go. 401 00:30:02,312 --> 00:30:03,814 Wolvesbreath helps with the pain. 402 00:30:04,648 --> 00:30:06,448 The brownish-green leaves with the red stripe. 403 00:30:06,483 --> 00:30:08,044 They reduce the swelling and bruising... 404 00:30:08,068 --> 00:30:10,529 I don't recall asking for your medical advice. 405 00:30:12,406 --> 00:30:13,407 Which? 406 00:30:36,471 --> 00:30:37,597 The pointed leaves. 407 00:30:50,610 --> 00:30:51,611 What is it? 408 00:30:52,112 --> 00:30:53,739 Lupi spiritus. 409 00:30:54,322 --> 00:30:57,826 Wolvesbreath, Empire. From our medicinal garden. 410 00:30:57,909 --> 00:31:00,704 It's an analgesic and vasodilator. 411 00:31:00,787 --> 00:31:01,872 Is it poisonous? 412 00:31:01,955 --> 00:31:06,209 No. Wolvesbreath is used in tea as well as tinctures. 413 00:31:06,293 --> 00:31:09,588 It stimulates the blood vessels, promotes healing... 414 00:31:09,671 --> 00:31:10,839 Eat it. 415 00:31:15,635 --> 00:31:17,554 If you're not dead within the next few hours, 416 00:31:17,637 --> 00:31:19,765 have a kilogram of these sent to my quarters. 417 00:31:19,848 --> 00:31:21,058 Of course, Empire. 418 00:31:27,564 --> 00:31:30,317 Laylo Fulham, get your ass back home this instant! 419 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:31,461 Are they gonna get through? 420 00:31:31,485 --> 00:31:32,569 Course not. 421 00:31:33,487 --> 00:31:38,784 Go back to your home, people. Please. It's not safe out here. Back up. Back up. 422 00:31:40,452 --> 00:31:42,079 You need to come out here. Now. 423 00:31:42,162 --> 00:31:43,246 Kind of busy here, Yate. 424 00:31:43,330 --> 00:31:44,873 I know, and I'm still calling. 425 00:31:44,956 --> 00:31:48,126 We've got Anacreon's troops massing from the east, west, south, 426 00:31:48,210 --> 00:31:49,961 and presumably the north. 427 00:31:51,505 --> 00:31:53,715 Remember how to hold a rifle, old man? 428 00:31:53,799 --> 00:31:54,883 Barrel goes forward? 429 00:31:55,592 --> 00:31:58,345 We've spotted Anacreons at multiple locations outside the fence. 430 00:31:58,970 --> 00:32:00,722 - I'll go west. - We'll head north. 431 00:32:01,223 --> 00:32:03,600 I shouldn't leave. Lewis is completely overmatched in there. 432 00:32:03,683 --> 00:32:05,143 I'll babysit him, I promise. 433 00:32:06,019 --> 00:32:07,187 All right. 434 00:32:08,355 --> 00:32:11,149 Is it true? You got some kind of Anacreon chieftain in there? 435 00:32:11,233 --> 00:32:12,484 You been drinking, Muller? 436 00:32:12,567 --> 00:32:15,737 It's the end of the galaxy, isn't it? Hari's prediction's coming true. 437 00:32:15,821 --> 00:32:18,240 You got hold of a bad rumor, Muller. Local poacher's all. 438 00:32:18,323 --> 00:32:19,908 They're already here, aren't they? 439 00:32:20,784 --> 00:32:23,245 Hey, why don't you just take a break for a second. 440 00:32:37,884 --> 00:32:38,885 Hey! 441 00:32:39,594 --> 00:32:40,846 I won't hurt you. 442 00:32:44,307 --> 00:32:45,434 Just tell me who you are. 443 00:32:46,351 --> 00:32:47,519 Sal. 444 00:32:48,019 --> 00:32:49,020 Sal. 445 00:32:49,104 --> 00:32:51,606 Sal. Hey, hey. What's wrong? 446 00:32:51,690 --> 00:32:53,650 I was just in the Imperial Library on Trantor. 447 00:32:53,734 --> 00:32:56,695 - What do you mean you were there? - I mean I was there. In the stacks. 448 00:32:57,362 --> 00:32:59,549 The ceiling was wooden, there were all these marble busts. 449 00:32:59,573 --> 00:33:01,158 And there was a boy with a knife. 450 00:33:02,784 --> 00:33:04,953 It was the same boy who led me to the Anacreons. 451 00:33:06,288 --> 00:33:10,333 It's the Vault. I can feel it, Hugo. It's trying to tell me something 452 00:33:10,417 --> 00:33:13,462 about the Anacreons and this crisis. Everything. 453 00:33:13,545 --> 00:33:17,424 Okay, listen to me. I've always said you should let this planet shrug you off. 454 00:33:18,467 --> 00:33:23,096 But watching you work, where you could sense what Phara was feeling inside... 455 00:33:24,806 --> 00:33:25,807 that's special. 456 00:33:26,391 --> 00:33:28,060 Other people can't do that, Sal. 457 00:33:28,143 --> 00:33:29,770 I have absolute faith in you. 458 00:33:33,065 --> 00:33:35,859 I have absolute faith in you. 459 00:33:56,171 --> 00:33:58,924 Who among you is Master Statistician Tivole? 460 00:34:02,928 --> 00:34:06,014 Empire. May the light never dim. 461 00:34:06,098 --> 00:34:07,641 May the light never dim. 462 00:34:07,724 --> 00:34:10,435 - You received my query. - I did, Empire. 463 00:34:10,519 --> 00:34:12,687 But I can't say yet we have the results. 464 00:34:12,771 --> 00:34:15,816 How long has it been since Dusk set you to this task? 465 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,526 Three decades? 466 00:34:17,609 --> 00:34:21,780 What do you do in your mausoleum of calculus 467 00:34:21,863 --> 00:34:25,158 if not achieve results? 468 00:34:26,952 --> 00:34:30,455 Progress, then. What is your progress? 469 00:34:31,623 --> 00:34:37,921 We believe the... the predictive models of Hari Seldon to be counterfactual. 470 00:34:40,465 --> 00:34:42,634 And you believe this why? 471 00:34:43,301 --> 00:34:48,222 In the 35 years since Seldon uttered his heretical proclamations, 472 00:34:48,306 --> 00:34:52,728 the Imperium has expanded, rather than contracted, by every critical metric... 473 00:34:52,811 --> 00:34:53,811 Stop. 474 00:34:55,063 --> 00:34:56,440 Seldon's prophecies. 475 00:34:56,523 --> 00:35:01,153 Speak to me of his math, this "ordinal analysis." 476 00:35:01,236 --> 00:35:03,905 It's a spread of fortune teller's cards 477 00:35:03,989 --> 00:35:07,951 which Seldon chose to interpret as divination. 478 00:35:09,577 --> 00:35:13,582 The verification he found in the regression models is unsupported. 479 00:35:13,664 --> 00:35:17,461 But what of these... these recent events? 480 00:35:17,544 --> 00:35:18,836 The conclave? Luminism? 481 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,800 Baseless conjecture. Again, vague and unsupported. 482 00:35:23,884 --> 00:35:27,804 I mean, anyone could predict a return to orthodoxy. 483 00:35:28,472 --> 00:35:33,101 Psychohistory is the fanciful work of an old man's imagination. 484 00:35:33,184 --> 00:35:35,872 If it weren't the fanciful work of an old man's imagination, what then? 485 00:35:35,896 --> 00:35:39,858 What is the likelihood that it's all true? Every prophecy? 486 00:35:40,692 --> 00:35:42,861 Vanishingly small, Empire. 487 00:35:42,944 --> 00:35:44,279 But not zero. 488 00:35:46,615 --> 00:35:47,866 Correct? 489 00:35:48,825 --> 00:35:50,869 Not zero? 490 00:35:51,620 --> 00:35:54,790 What kind of idiots are you? 491 00:35:54,873 --> 00:35:58,043 A thousand imperial mathematicians... 492 00:35:58,126 --> 00:36:01,004 ...can't parse the numbers of one man? 493 00:36:01,088 --> 00:36:05,550 So there's nothing anyone in the galaxy can do? 494 00:36:08,136 --> 00:36:11,765 Is that what it is? Is that the best you've got? 495 00:36:13,642 --> 00:36:16,561 Tell me. Tell me! 496 00:36:18,605 --> 00:36:21,358 Tell me! 497 00:36:32,244 --> 00:36:34,538 In the twilight of a man's life... 498 00:36:34,621 --> 00:36:37,290 ...when his biography is nearly complete, 499 00:36:37,916 --> 00:36:40,460 he grows desperate to know the measure of his days... 500 00:36:42,421 --> 00:36:46,049 how his voice compares to the chorus of those who've come before. 501 00:36:49,594 --> 00:36:52,931 Do I matter? Are my choices my own? 502 00:36:53,724 --> 00:36:57,477 Or is my destiny governed by an unseen hand? 503 00:37:09,531 --> 00:37:11,616 Brother Day. Come to see us off? 504 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:14,494 I was paid a visit by your statisticians. 505 00:37:14,578 --> 00:37:17,497 It's remarkable how self-reinforcing their results are. 506 00:37:17,581 --> 00:37:21,960 I think it's best that you stay and tend to matters on Trantor. 507 00:37:22,836 --> 00:37:26,423 Empire, a primary Cleon has not left the bosom of Trantor 508 00:37:26,506 --> 00:37:28,633 since the dawn of the Genetic Dynasty. 509 00:37:28,717 --> 00:37:29,718 Demerzel is right. 510 00:37:30,594 --> 00:37:33,388 We have these protocols in place for a reason. 511 00:37:33,472 --> 00:37:40,062 And I say our protocols have made us complacent. 512 00:37:40,771 --> 00:37:42,856 When you sat on the middle throne, as I do now, 513 00:37:42,939 --> 00:37:45,358 and were debating what to do about Anacreon and Thespis, 514 00:37:45,442 --> 00:37:48,653 what our response should be, do you remember what you said? 515 00:37:50,113 --> 00:37:51,114 I do. 516 00:37:52,199 --> 00:37:53,575 Like it was yesterday. 517 00:37:54,159 --> 00:37:55,410 I was seven. 518 00:37:55,494 --> 00:37:58,580 Our eldest brother had argued for a bout of grace. 519 00:37:58,663 --> 00:38:01,416 You turned to me and said, "What do you think, Ascending Dawn?" 520 00:38:02,709 --> 00:38:04,211 I knew you were against grace, 521 00:38:04,836 --> 00:38:07,756 that you wanted to bomb the barbarian kingdoms. 522 00:38:07,839 --> 00:38:12,010 But I was scared. And I dared say so. 523 00:38:12,844 --> 00:38:15,263 Well, I'm not scared anymore. 524 00:38:16,098 --> 00:38:21,978 On your watch, the Star Bridge fell. And from that scar insurgency was birthed. 525 00:38:22,062 --> 00:38:24,481 On your watch, two worlds were incinerated 526 00:38:24,564 --> 00:38:27,109 with not a care to innocence or consequence. 527 00:38:27,192 --> 00:38:30,612 On your watch, Hari Seldon and his followers were allowed to flee. 528 00:38:31,154 --> 00:38:34,574 You have bequeathed me an Empire rent by impulsive action. 529 00:38:34,658 --> 00:38:38,578 The same will not be said of me. Not on my watch. 530 00:38:39,162 --> 00:38:41,581 I would save our legacy. 531 00:38:41,665 --> 00:38:42,666 Brother... 532 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,255 you are haunted by the ghost of a man long dead. 533 00:38:48,338 --> 00:38:50,590 We all are, Brother. 534 00:38:55,220 --> 00:38:56,972 Your watch is over. 535 00:38:58,432 --> 00:39:02,769 You will stay on Trantor, tending to the wounds you have allowed to fester. 536 00:39:04,020 --> 00:39:05,021 Go. 537 00:39:05,939 --> 00:39:08,400 Return Brother Dusk's belongings to the palace. 538 00:39:19,619 --> 00:39:23,540 Certainly now the Empire will no longer be rent by impulsive action. 539 00:39:55,739 --> 00:39:56,865 You summoned me, Empire? 540 00:39:56,948 --> 00:39:59,659 A communications buoy has gone dark in the Outer Reach. 541 00:40:00,994 --> 00:40:02,454 Take your team and investigate. 542 00:40:03,288 --> 00:40:04,498 At once, Empire. 543 00:40:04,998 --> 00:40:05,999 Dorwin. 544 00:40:06,917 --> 00:40:09,586 Our dispatches from the Foundation have become sporadic. 545 00:40:09,669 --> 00:40:10,754 Pay them a visit. 546 00:40:10,837 --> 00:40:14,716 And remind the Foundation that Empire will not be kept in the dark. 547 00:41:18,864 --> 00:41:21,116 - Is that, uh... - Doesn't look good, does it? 548 00:41:40,010 --> 00:41:44,014 Who is in charge here, Lewis? You? Or is it the Warden with the coin tricks? 549 00:41:44,097 --> 00:41:46,433 Because it seems she's managed to complicate matters. 550 00:41:46,516 --> 00:41:48,852 - Let me be clear, Huntress Keaen... - Grand Huntress. 551 00:41:48,935 --> 00:41:50,479 The only reason we have a crisis 552 00:41:50,562 --> 00:41:54,024 is because you trespassed on the Emperor's personal domain. 553 00:41:54,107 --> 00:41:57,319 If only Salvor had taken me to the tower and given me what I'd wanted, 554 00:41:57,402 --> 00:41:59,029 we'd already be off-planet. 555 00:41:59,112 --> 00:42:00,614 The module from our slow ship? 556 00:42:00,697 --> 00:42:03,200 It's not as if your people have any use for it. 557 00:42:03,700 --> 00:42:07,287 You're marooned on Terminus. The Empire made sure of that. 558 00:42:07,370 --> 00:42:08,705 Lewis. 559 00:42:09,623 --> 00:42:10,624 Why do you need it? 560 00:42:11,124 --> 00:42:13,335 My people are technologically bankrupt. 561 00:42:13,418 --> 00:42:15,045 We're dying, Director. 562 00:42:15,837 --> 00:42:19,341 We have been ever since the Empire set our atmosphere on fire. 563 00:42:19,424 --> 00:42:23,261 Half our population lost for a crime that we were innocent of. 564 00:42:23,345 --> 00:42:25,180 Unlike you, we have ships. 565 00:42:25,263 --> 00:42:28,850 We can leave our poisoned world, find another star system. 566 00:42:28,934 --> 00:42:32,104 If only we had the means to navigate the void. 567 00:42:32,187 --> 00:42:33,907 The Empire would crush us for assisting you. 568 00:42:33,980 --> 00:42:35,732 We're forcing your hand, Director. 569 00:42:36,733 --> 00:42:38,610 Because we have nothing left to lose. 570 00:42:39,569 --> 00:42:42,781 You can't play chess with someone who's willing to set the board on fire. 571 00:42:46,785 --> 00:42:48,829 Is that some kind of flak cannon? 572 00:42:48,912 --> 00:42:51,512 Wasting their time if they think that's gonna penetrate the fence. 573 00:42:51,581 --> 00:42:55,043 None of this feels right. Phara is smarter than this. 574 00:42:55,127 --> 00:42:57,546 They took out the comms buoy, and they came in prepared. 575 00:42:57,629 --> 00:43:00,298 There's a larger strategy here, and I am missing it somehow. 576 00:43:00,382 --> 00:43:02,694 What if I take my ship, make a run for the stars, get help? 577 00:43:02,718 --> 00:43:06,096 No, no. They'd shoot you out of the sky before you ever made it into orbit. 578 00:43:07,139 --> 00:43:08,950 Regretting you didn't bug out when you had the chance? 579 00:43:08,974 --> 00:43:11,643 Done a lot of foolish things in my life, Salvor Hardin. 580 00:43:11,727 --> 00:43:13,562 Sticking by your side is not one of them. 581 00:43:14,896 --> 00:43:16,314 Best manservant ever. 582 00:43:27,617 --> 00:43:29,161 The Vault isn't Anacreon... 583 00:43:30,036 --> 00:43:31,079 or alien at all. 584 00:43:31,163 --> 00:43:32,622 It's gotta be connected to Hari. 585 00:43:32,706 --> 00:43:33,707 How do you know that? 586 00:43:33,790 --> 00:43:35,667 Because the vision I saw when I blacked out, 587 00:43:36,293 --> 00:43:40,922 it was on Trantor in Hari's library, with a boy holding a knife on me. 588 00:43:41,715 --> 00:43:43,383 What if it was a warning to stay away? 589 00:43:44,634 --> 00:43:46,136 What if Lewis is right? 590 00:43:46,219 --> 00:43:49,347 I'm an outlier, just like he says, barging around, knocking things over, 591 00:43:49,431 --> 00:43:50,724 screwing up Seldon's plan? 592 00:43:50,807 --> 00:43:53,310 Salvor, what if you are Seldon's plan? 593 00:43:55,562 --> 00:43:59,274 The fate of one individual will always remain a mystery. 594 00:43:59,357 --> 00:44:03,737 Remember my promise, Warden? Razing your city to the ground? 595 00:44:03,820 --> 00:44:05,781 But the movements of masses, 596 00:44:05,864 --> 00:44:09,409 the rise and falls of cultures, causes and worlds... 597 00:44:10,243 --> 00:44:13,413 These were answers Hari Seldon had long since unriddled. 598 00:44:14,081 --> 00:44:15,373 It's time. 599 00:44:15,457 --> 00:44:19,252 And the beginning of the end, as befitting its name, 600 00:44:19,336 --> 00:44:21,129 took place on Terminus.